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Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) supported a $450 million/yr aquaculture industry in 2003. [5] The US farm-raised catfish industry began in the early 1960s in Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Channel catfish quickly became the major catfish grown, as it was hardy and easily spawned in earthen ponds. By the late 1960s, the industry moved into ...
The channel catfish is an important food source in the southern United States and is valued for the quality of its meat. [30] In the United States, catfish is the largest aquaculture industry, and channel catfish make up 90% of farm-raised catfish. In 2021, catfish farmers in the United States made $421 million in sales.
Chain pickerel (Esox niger) Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) Channel darter (Percina copelandi) Chestnut lamprey (Ichthyomyzon castaneus) Chub shiner (Notropis potteri) Common carp (Cyprinus carpio) Common logperch (Percina caprodes) Common shiner (Luxilus cornutus) Creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus)
Noodling is fishing for catfish using one's bare hands or feet, and is practiced primarily in the southern United States. The noodler places their hand or foot inside a discovered catfish hole in order to catch the fish. Other names for the same activity are used in different regions, primarily in the South and Midwest, and include hogging ...
Two Mississippi catfish farms have settled a lawsuit alleging that they brought workers from Mexico to the U.S. and paid them significantly more than they previously paid local Black farmworkers ...
Noturus exilis, also called the slender madtom, is a species of the catfish family Ictaluridae. Ictaluridae includes bullheads, madtoms, channel catfish, and blue catfish. Noturus exilis is found in the central portion of the Mississippi River basin, but is most abundant in Ozarkian streams. [2] Slender madtoms occur west of the Mississippi ...
Species: N. flavus. Binomial name. Noturus flavus. Rafinesque, 1818. Noturus flavus, the stonecat, is a North American freshwater catfish of the family Ictaluridae. The common name is due to its habit of hiding near or under stones in fast-moving water. [2]
Plotosus lineatus, commonly known as the striped eel catfish, is a species of eeltail catfishes belonging to the family Plotosidae. Like most other members of the genus Plotosus , they possesses highly venomous spines that they can use to sting when threatened.